• Title
  Natives on the New Guinea coast, 1849 / Thomas Henry Huxley
• Creator
  Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895
• Call number
  ML 115
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  844799
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 7 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (inside mount), framed - watercolour
  
• Collection history
  On the back of the picture is a note signed and dated 'Edith Deane 14 Jan. 1932' stating that the picture was given by Huxley to her grandfather, Lieut. Colonel Barney, R.N. Miss Deane received it from her mother, Mrs Henrietta Deane.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Untitled.
  
  Huxley was with the Rattlesnake surveying expedition on the New Guinea coast during 1849.
  
  Copy Print : ML 115
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846109
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'TH' at lower left in ink. Following the signature there appears to be a date; this is partly covered by the mount and is indecipherable.
• Topic
  coasts
  palm trees
  huts
  indigenous people
  
• Place
  New Guinea
  

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